October Autograph Pickups
 

Guess I will kick it offgot this Joe D. 1937 press photo from a fellow member & had it framed and matted with a circa 1947 album page from the Burt Sugar collection... I made a color copy of the original article photo and included that into the display as well...

Pick these up from members of the board, #191-194
(Had to re-acquire Heilmann after selling my original)

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Taz,

Those are beautiful!!

Great stuff both of you. Love the pickup threads

Perez Steele progress
 

Reggie...

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...jackson-reggie

Just need Lasorda to have all the living guys...then on to the tough ones (Averill, Cronin, Greenberg, Ruffing, Waner, Campanella, Coveleski, Hoyt, Paige, Kelly, Alston, Ashburn & Puckett)...

Going through some of my dad's stuff and found this cool piece..one of those priceless items we hope stays in the family for generations

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...ps531bc4f5.jpg

That is awesome.. Is Mr. Sherman in your family (sorry if I didnt pick it up it was your dad)?

I am Edw@rd A Sherm@n IV, which make it that much more desirable

Well then that is certainly very cool, and the Provenance holds up :)

Wags
 

Was finally able to pick one up that I have been hunting for quite some time...
Grabbed this 1939 Pirates score cards signed by Ray Mueller, Fern Bell, and Honus Wagner... The page with the wags has been folded, neatly placed in lucite and thent framed and matted...

here are the before and afters...

4 of the original 5 down, jsut the elusive #5 to go...

your photos always come out sideways. Im confused enough:)

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Hawk Perez Steele
 

Forgot I even sent this off...Andre actually signed both copies I sent to him.

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...5/dawson-andre

I posted this for opinions, and after over 250 views I only got one. As I believe that this is a legit auto, I'm posting it here as HOF auto #233 for my collection.

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...s0abb8a0a.jpeg

Great pickup, 233 is an incredible number

Happy to see that players don't mind signing the ones that Perez had done after they stopped putting them out. Once I get down to those last few high price ones, I'll start getting those done.

1949 Lincoln A's team signed ball...picked it up at a local estate auction today.

Uncle Robbie
 

Wonderful piece! Congrats on your b
Pickup. If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read jack kavanaghs book "uncle Robbie" you will like the auto that much more after completing it!




[QbUOTE=mighty bombjack;1193705]I posted this for opinions, and after over 250 views I only got one. As I believe that this is a legit auto, I'm posting it here as HOF auto #233 for my collection.

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HOF'er # 219/300

1929 George Wright full page document
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219! Damn, that's great work. I gotta score one of these Wrights that are floating around.

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My fifth Derek Jeter Scoreboard 1996 autographed baseball.

His 1996 sig is my favorite by far........

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Not a great looking ball, but I picked it up for well under $200.00.....

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Mariano Rivera
 

So I cracked the Early Mo index card from its PSA/DNA tomb, and sure enough the two little dirt specs came off... I gave it to my framer this morning with a ticket 9/26 to Mo's last game & Voila!!!

Not much of a modern auto fan so this one will likely wind up in the BST... If anyone is interested, please feel free to PM Me.

Happy Collecting!

Fabulous piece sir.

Very nice presentation, Dave. Will you be going after a '1st game stub' for a future re-frame?

Mo
 

Great question... That would certainly make for an interesting piece no doubt!

PT Barnum
 

So this one is slightly outside of my typical collecting interests, but I couldn't pass up a vintage auto of the greatest showman on earth!

What is pretty neat to me is that it was signed exactly 101 years and 1 day before my birthdate!

It just goes to show how long autograph collecting has been around.

Here's one I just picked up for my Presidential collection. Carter is so common that it's hard to find good pieces for him, however I thought this one fit the bill. Thought it had a great association considering the Camp David Accords.

TLS signed “Jimmy,” one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 20, 1977. Letter to Lawrence Spivak, cofounder of Meet the Press. In full: “Thanks for sharing your comments about Menahem [sic] Begin. Your insight, as usual, is valuable.” In very fine condition. Accompanied by a copy of Spivak’s initial letter, in part: “If Menahem [sic] Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel, I think he may offer more of an opportunity for peace than a peril to it…He has softened considerably since his days in the Irgun. Not only that, but his heart attack and his age can, I believe, make him think more about a place in history as a peacemaker than as a hawk. If he should recognize the importance of compromise, it will be easier for him to sell the Israelis than it would be for a Prime Minister who is more dovish.”

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Feller
 

obviously not the most common uncommon autograph, but thought that this 1948 copy with this inscription was pretty cool!

Cracked this one out of its slab (had some surface scratches) dropped it off this am and got back my framer this evening... Kept the slab, flip, and also comes with a full letter from PSA/DNA... This one will be available so please pm me if you have an interest..

Other day I saw Two orig small cabinet photos of General Tom Thumb and his original masonic ring. its in a kind of celebrity museum in an antique shop, but wow.

this came out amazing. what a great piece.

Dave,
This piece turned out AWESOME! Very nice!

From a fellow board member. The photo can be dated to 1951 given the signage.

From 55 Dodgers yearbook. Vintage Pee Wee Reese signed page. WC year:)

Very nice Scott!!

Like Dave, not sports, but Picked up this today at a thrift shop. Hoda Kotb from the TODAY show personal signed copy of Ace' biography, dated on day of his appearance on the show. How does something like this end up in a thrift shop? May sell or keep, but LOVE IT>

Ace
 

Wow what a cool signature!

That one would look beautifulr framed and matted.

Nice pickup, and they feel even better whent you dont pay an arm and a leg! congrats!

PT
 

Thanks Scott!

It did come out great, my framer has a nice eye and is prompt in getting things together... This one has been shipped to another board member, Hopefully he will share some more photos when he recieves it... Just a really neat item...

The Rocket
 

Aside of the controversy, the rocket was one of my favorite pitchers growing up... For years I wanted a copy of his 1984 Pawsox pre-rookie card, but couldn't shell out the $250 that they were asking at the time... in 2012 I ended up scooping one up on the bay for $30... I still have the set, and this auto provides a nice companion piece... its a circa 1983-1984 Team Sheet Signed by A very young clemens & two teamates (Chuck Davis & Charlie Mitchell), both also appeared in the 1984 pawsox set but only Mitchell played on the team... That said, I think the sheet might be a 1983 New Britain Sox sheet which would be the second earliest clemens that I have ever seen (1983 Longhorns team ball)...

Not an earth shaker, but extremely happy to have it in my collection

Nobody can take it away from Roger before the roids. Cool early signature

Mr October

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find out when I flipped it over after it arrived today that Johnny Podres is on other side and signed. Not real valuable, but a nice unannounced surprise:)

I think his name is spelled wrong, ain't it "roids".

Hitters get better with Age!

Love the Ortiz...HATE the font used for 'Turkey Red'

Night Of The Living Turkey Red

That is really saying something coming from a Yankee fan (ARod, Sheffield, Clemens, Pettitte, Giambi, etc.)

Papi
 

One that lives in metro west mass no less!

What does in matter where I live?

Guess you can't take a joke! Also I know my team has had cheaters and I'm willing to actually admit it.

Has Ortiz' name ever come up in any roids investigation?

Hey guys, new to the forum. Just started a PSA/DNA vintage collection. Here is my first pickup:

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absolutely nothing
 

Merely a joke Brock... I grew up just down the road from you in Ashland... I now am the sole (or so it seems) Red Sox fan in West Haven CT!

:)

Oritiz
 

Pretty sure he tested positive for a ped in 2003, but was not outed until many years later... to this day he still does not know how he failed the test...

Mantle signed lobby card. Thinking of getting the other autos and framing it with the piece. But not sure if I'll be able to find a Bryan Russell auto.

Absolutely! About a year after he proclaimed "If you ever catch me using performance-enhancing drugs, I will walk away from baseball," he failed a drug test (the same one as Manny.) He claimed he was going to get to the bottom of it, he must still be investigating.

He then went on t.v., and with tears in his eyes said he made a mistake and was sorry.

Hall of Fame TTM
 

Managed to add Index Cards #95 & 96:

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...27/bunning-jim
http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...99/gillick-pat

Also added to more "unofficial" Perez Steele Post Cards:

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...97/gillick-pathttp://www.collectorfocus.com/images.../herzog-whitey
http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...jackson-reggie

Well, that makes it OK then! We can all ignore his being a hypocrite.
The love Ortiz gets, plus the hero welcome Manny got from LA when he returned from his suspension tell me that people really don't care about steroids at all.

Whoops wrong thread. meant to psot on the main board.

First,the list is not exact.The goverment prepared it after seizing the testing data.The result was that out of the 104 names recorded as positive,exceeds the actual number of positive tests which was 96.So 8 players shouldn't be on that list.The Mitchell Report explains that some of those 96 positives were contested by the MLBPA,who is protecting its own interests, so of course they'd contest,and maybe that doesn't mean anything.Except that MLB stated that some over-the-counter supplements that were available at the time would have resulted in a positive test.
As far as Ortiz goes and why he was on the list,MLB and the MLBPA said at the time, they are prohibited from discussing it, other than to inform Ortiz that he was on the list. They can't say why he's on the list - to us, to Ortiz, to anyone.
I guess he's guilty until proven innocent,right?

Proof or no proof there were plenty of players not on that list. Ortiz was. Players from that list have admitted what they've done. It is clear to me that the list is credible unless you have an ulterior motive, like that you're a fan of a player named. I understand that, but to suggest that the list or information regarding the players on that list is fabricated seems at odds with what some of the players on the list were willing to admit.

What do you expect from Red Sox fans! To them Their players do no wrong it's only when other players do it that it's wrong. I'm sure Ortiz could fail a PED test tomorrow and they would still love him and say that he never took steroids or mlb set him up.

Just look at a baseball card of Ortiz from his early days with the Twins and then his days with the Red Sox. I think that is all you need to come to a conclusion. He is just as dirty as Big Mac, Bonds, etc...

Matt - Congrats on your additions. Did you get that Reggie in-person? If not, his signature is starting to really deteriorate. I got his signature a couple of years ago and it was a beauty!